Sunday, 24 March 2013

Redecorating My Bedroom: Plans for Summer

So I’ve
decided that redecorating my bedroom is going to be one of my summer projects.
I’ve wanted to do this for a while - I’ve been meaning to paint it for over a
year! I’m getting really excited about doing it finally.

I already
have a number of plans for it. I don’t think I’ll be rearranging my furniture
again. I’ve done that three or four times over the last year. A couple of
little things may change but I really like most of the layout I have now.

When I’m
back in London for Easter I’m going to go through my things and get rid of some
more. I narrow it down every time I clean up and there’s still things I’ve kept
that I liked or thought I’d use at some point but I know I probably never will.
I think I have a pretty big bedroom and quite a bit of storage space but there
never seems to be enough for the things I have so I’m hoping to change that.

As for my
decorative plans, my main idea was to attempt to make it look cute without
being too girly, because I don’t want that. I’m painting the walls a single
colour and I wanted it to be some shade of purple because it’s my favourite
colour. A lot of my room decoration is actually nice but it’s over a decade old
so it doesn’t really suit me anymore so a lot of this is going to be changing
my room so it fits me. I was looking at B&Q because that’s my big local DIY
place and a lot of their paints are cheaper than I’ve seen elsewhere. They have
a light purple/pinkish one called ‘Lollipop’ that I love so I want to go with
that. I’m also repainting my doors, door frames and windowsill white. They’re
already white but a new coat would look great and my closet doors currently
have other things painted on them and I’d like to make them plain. I may or may
not do the ceiling. It will be more difficult to do that and I’m not sure how
well it would come out, but I might try anyway.

Another
thing I’ve wanted to change for a long time is my curtains. Like the walls, my
curtains haven’t been changed in over a decade. They’re old, faded and stained.
I’ve also gone off the material and patterns. I wanted to get a rug too, one of
the fluffy ones, and I thought it would look great if those two were the same
colour because then there would be some real colour themes going on.

I actually
already have these things. I decided to get them from my favourite fabric
store. I thought I’d get one of the nice fake furs they have there to use as a
rug since it’s cheaper than any real fluffy rug I’ve seen. I decided to make my
own curtains because getting the exact size I need in a colour I want at a price
I was willing to pay was proving impossible.

The material
I bought for the curtains was turquoise satin. Turquoise is actually my
birthstone so I thought that worked even better. I chose satin because it was
cheap and I preferred the feel of it compared to some of the other options.
Plus I’ve always liked the idea of satin curtains. I wanted turquoise for the
fur too but they didn’t have any left so I bought a different blue. It still
works great with the curtain material and honestly I think a darker colour is
better for something that’s going to be on the floor anyway.

Here’s a
picture I took of the two:

That’s not all.
I have a metre of black fur left from my Ulquiorra cosplay and wanted to do
something comfy with that. My friend actually suggested I use that as a rug and
I’d considered it but because it’s a nicer quality and more expensive I instead
decided to put it over the back of my armchair, to make that warmer and
snugglier. My cat Sonny is going to love all this fluffy stuff.

Another
thing I’ve wanted for ages is some of those glow in the dark stars you can
stick to the ceiling. On Amazon a pack of a thousand is only a fiver. It’s
going to be so much fun decorating with them.

I’d also
like to take some of the ornaments off the shelves in my closet and bring them
out into the room. For that I’m particularly thinking a set of small skulls I have
and a little pot I made. I would also like to set aside a nice place for Trixie’s
(my old cat’s) urn.

Then for
further decoration I’m going to put things up on my wall after decorating. I’ve
gotten permission to put a nail in the wall so I can hang up my second wall
scroll (there was already one in there which the first scroll took). I used to
have it on a hook above my closet but with it there I can only open one of the
doors and it’s inconvenient. Then I’ll put up a few posters (anime, gaming,
music, etc.).

That’s about
all the planning I’ve done for now. I plan to do updates when I actually start
working on it. I’ll be going through my stuff and making the curtains over
Easter. I won’t be doing the rest until summer because it requires the painting
being done. My mum was the one who actually suggested I wait until I come back
for summer to do that because it will be warmer so the paint will dry faster. I’m
so excited. Luckily for me the summer holiday starts on the 23rd of
April and I’m gonna be back May 4th. It’ll probably be a couple of
days after that before I actually get started and luckily I have uni and
cosplay projects to keep me busy until then.ereH